Jessica L. Ellsworth is a partner with Hogan Lovells LLP practicing in the firm’s Washington, DC office. She co-heads the firm’s Supreme Court and appellate practice. Having argued more than 90 appeals, she focuses her practice on the Supreme Court and courts of appeals. Jess served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Martha Craig Daughtrey of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the Honorable Rebecca Beach Smith of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Ephraim McDowell is a Partner in Cooley LLP’s Supreme Court and appellate practice. He has argued five cases before the US Supreme Court, as well as numerous cases in courts of appeals and district courts. Before joining Cooley, Ephraim served in the Office of the Solicitor General at the US Department of Justice. He also was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan and Chief Judge Merrick Garland, US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.

Zac Morgan joined WLF in 2025 as Senior Litigation Counsel. In that role, he regularly represents WLF and other clients as counsel of record in cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and the federal appellate courts. Before arriving at WLF, Zac served as counsel to Commissioner Allen Dickerson of the Federal Election Commission. Zac also spent eight years litigating First Amendment cases as a staff attorney for the Institute for Free Speech, where he represented clients in federal and state cases across the country. He received his J.D. from George Mason University’s School of Law, where he participated in GMU’s Wiley Rein Supreme Court clinic. Zac serves in a volunteer capacity as a Senior Fellow at People United for Privacy Foundation.